校
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(bound form) school; college; (bound form) (military) field officer
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Dict coverage rank #700 U+6821
How 校 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
木 (semantic, “wood”) + 交 (phonetic, jiāo)
How to remember it
school · Heisig RSH #1047
木 tree + 交 mingle
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 交
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 交 (jiāo) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 交 sound component | jiāo | to connect; to deliver, to exchange; to intersect; to mix |
| 效 | xiào | result, effect; effective |
| 咬 | yǎo | to bite, to gnaw |
| 较 | jiào | to compare; relatively; more |
| 绞 | jiǎo | intertwined; to twist, to wring; to hang a criminal |
| 郊 | jiāo | suburbs, outskirts; wasteland, open space |
| 饺 | jiǎo | stuffed dumplings |
| 狡 | jiǎo | cunning, deceitful, treacherous |
| 皎 | jiǎo | white; bright, brilliant; clear |
| 鲛 | jiāo | shark |
| 跤 | jiāo | to tumble, to fall; to wrestle |
| 蛟 | jiāo | a legendary scaled dragon |
| 佼 | jiǎo | beautiful, handsome, good-looking |
| 姣 | jiāo | beautiful, handsome, pretty |
| 洨 | xiáo | a river in Hebei province |
| 茭 | jiāo | an edible aquatic grass; Zizania aquatica |
Words containing 校
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 海军大校 | hǎi jūn dà xiào | commodore (= US Navy equivalent) |
| 工业学校 | gōng yè xué xiào | technical or industrial school; CL:個|个[ge4],所[suo3] |
| 海军中校 | hǎi jūn zhōng xiào | commander (= UK and US Navy equivalent) |
| 半日制学校 | bàn rì zhì xué xiào | half-day (or double-shift) school |
| 海军上校 | hǎi jūn shàng xiào | captain (= UK and US Navy equivalent) |
| 公立学校 | gōng lì xué xiào | public school |
| 西点军校 | Xī diǎn Jūn xiào | West Point; United States Military Academy |
| 出校门 | chū xiào mén | (fig.) to leave school; to graduate; to enter the world beyond school |
| 普通高等学校招生全国统一考试 | Pǔ tōng Gāo děng Xué xiào Zhāo shēng Quán guó Tǒng yī Kǎo shì | NCEE, National College Entrance Examination (college entrance exam in PRC); usually abbr. … |
| 校运会 | xiào yùn huì | (school) field day; sports day |
| 高等学校 | gāo děng xué xiào | colleges and universities |
| 大校 | dà xiào | senior ranking officer in Chinese army; senior colonel |
| 校区 | xiào qū | campus |
| 中校 | zhōng xiào | middle ranking officer in Chinese army; lieutenant colonel; commander |
| 学校 | xué xiào | school; CL:所[suo3] |
| 校地 | xiào dì | (Tw) the land on which a school is built (or is intended to be built) |
| 技工学校 | jì gōng xué xiào | vocational high school |
| 中等专业学校 | zhōng děng zhuān yè xué xiào | vocational secondary school; technical secondary school |
| 上校 | shàng xiào | high ranking officer in Chinese army; colonel |
| 校花 | xiào huā | the prettiest girl in the school (see also 校草[xiao4 cao3]); school beauty queen; campus be… |